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For over 50 years, the Community Foundation has helped people give with purpose, strengthening Memphis and the Mid-South.

We make giving easier and more impactful by matching your generosity with the causes and community you care about most.

We offer solutions and resources to donors and the professionals who advise them to help you give smarter and do more good.

We offer funding opportunities that helps nonprofits and students create positive change and build futures.

When you get involved with the Community Foundation, you join a group of people committed to Memphis’s future.

Learn more about the philanthropic hub that connects capital with the solutions that make our community thrive.

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Learn how to give with purpose and confidence. Explore practical tips, case studies, and expert insights to help you manage philanthropy wisely and maximize your impact in our community.

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    Policy & Tax Planning

    Bunching charitable gifts, year-end, and getting ahead

    Year-end planning season is here. Here’s why bunching charitable contributions deserves a spot in your client conversations right now.

  • A woman kneels in a hallway measuring a young boys height against the wall. The boy smiles, standing straight. Sunlight fills the cozy home behind them.
    Policy & Tax Planning

    Highs and lows: Reminding clients about stock gifts

    Your client’s stock gift deduction might look smaller than expected — and there’s a good reason why. Here’s what advisors should explain.

  • A grid with six icons: clock, ribbon, treasure chest, network, messages with hearts and thumbs up, and shield with checkmark. The title reads The 6 Ts of Philanthropy. This visual captures key philanthropy principles through the 6 Ts framework.
    Philanthropy & Giving

    The 6 Ts of philanthropy

    Philanthropy is more than treasure—it’s time, talent, ties, testimony, and truth working together for lasting impact.

  • A person in a brown coat holds a black bag and a folded newspaper—certainly worth a read—under their arm, walking outside.
    Philanthropy & Giving

    Worth a read

    Three articles every advisor should read right now — on DAFs, charitable planning, and why philanthropy may be your edge over AI.

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    Philanthropy & Giving

    Backdrop required: Informing your work with charitable clients

    Charitable planning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Here are three trends every advisor should have on their radar right now.

  • Smiling boy wearing safety goggles holds a toy rocket with red fins and lightning bolt designs, outdoors on a sunny day—reminding us how split-interest charitable gifts can launch bright futures for the next generation.
    Philanthropy & Giving

    IPOs and charitable clients: Three scenarios for impact

    An IPO can change a client’s life overnight. Are you having the charitable planning conversation before the window closes?

  • Four adults stand side by side indoors, smiling at the camera. Dressed in business or business-casual attire, they pose in front of a railing in a modern, industrial-style building—united in their commitment to building a legacy together.
    Philanthropy & Giving

    Building a legacy that lasts

    We partner with advisors and their clients’ families to align charitable giving with core beliefs and personal principles, helping translate financial and legal strategy into a personalized vision, mission,…

  • An older woman with short gray hair smiles joyfully while looking at her smartphone, sitting on a couch in a cozy living room with a lamp and bookshelf in the background.
    Policy & Tax Planning

    Good news keeps coming: Retirement plans and charitable giving

    QCDs keep getting better. New legislation could extend them beyond IRAs — and that’s a conversation worth having with your clients now.

  • Two people holding ice cream bars, one pink and one white with nuts, about to toast them together. The background is blurred greenery, and only their hands and part of their torsos are visible.
    Philanthropy & Giving

    Split-interest charitable gifts: Need-to-know FAQs

    CGAs and CRTs both create income streams and charitable impact — but they’re not interchangeable. Here’s what advisors need to know.